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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Peter Hannam

‘Man of integrity’: NSW elevates official who had public falling out with Barnaby Joyce

Paul Grimes
Paul Grimes, handpicked by Matt Kean when he was NSW energy minister, will be NSW treasury secretary. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

A senior commonwealth official who was sacked by Barnaby Joyce in 2015 has been promoted to become the second most powerful bureaucrat in New South Wales.

Paul Grimes is the new state treasury secretary, continuing the revival of his public service career that included stints as a deputy secretary under then federal treasurer Peter Costello and as a senior adviser to Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd during the global financial crisis.

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